New York
December 28, 2022

Asian-American Identity Through Quiet, Ordinary Gestures

Sometimes, exhibitions about identity demand too much of those bearing the identities, expecting them to speak explicitly to their experience. | AX Mina

Understatements: Lost & Found in Asian America
Sept. 28–Jan. 6, 2023
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, Klapper Hall, Flushing (gtmuseum.org)

REVIEWS THIS WEEK

Nellie Mae Rowe’s Story of Freedom

Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe is brimming with examples of the artist’s imaginative allegorical art. | Ekin Erkan

Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe
Sept. 2–Jan. 1, 2023
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn (brooklynmuseum.org)

Philip Taaffe Digs Deeper Into the Rabbit Hole 

It seems Taaffe is looking at the present as an extinction event, and that one purpose of painting is to bequeath some record of history and time to the future. | John Yau 

Philip Taaffe
Nov. 12–Dec. 22
Luhring Augustinem, 17 White Street, Tribeca (luhringaugustine.com)

Echoes of Joy and Peril in Leda Catunda’s Textiles 

The Brazilian artist practices an erasure poetry upon textiles and assembles the results into evocative, semi-sculptural configurations. | Louis Bury

Leda Catunda: Geography
Nov. 4–Dec. 23
Bortolami, 39 Walker Street, Tribeca (bortolamigallery.com)

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CLOSING SOON

Camille Norment: Plexus
Mar. 3–Dec. 30
Dia Chelsea, 537 West 22nd Street, Chelsea (diaart.org)

Site-specific sonic installations by Camille Norment occupy each of the two galleries at Dia’s Chelsea location. A brass sculpture intersperses amplified ambient noise with static from radio reporting on 1960s and ’70s social movements, while a rhizomatic wood installation transmits sounds of singing and grinding teeth.

Even a Cat Can Look at the Queen
Nov. 17–Jan. 7, 2023
Mrs., 60-40 56th Drive, Maspeth (mrsgallery.com)

Cats have never really been known to follow orders. Rather, their lack of discipline is part of their mystique. Accordingly, a group show at Mrs. draws from a long tradition of trying and failing to impose our will on feline disobedience. 

Read Elaine Velie's article.

52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone
Jun. 6–Jan. 8, 2023
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT (thealdrich.org)

The museum’s ambitious rendition of its 1971 exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists, which was curated by Lucy Lippard, pairs art by the original cohort with work by a fantastic group of 26 young women, femme, and nonbinary artists, including Ilana Harris-Babou, LJ Roberts, Aliza Shvarts, and Tourmaline.

Read Alexandra Schwartz's deep dive into how this landmark feminist show got erased from collective memory and Amy Smith-Stewart and Caitlin Monachino's conversation on the five-year process of unearthing and restaging it.

MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC

The Understated Beauty of Decorated Paper

Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s is a feast for the eyes. | Sarah Rose Sharp

NYC’s Five Boroughs, Reimagined in Gingerbread

An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrates the Big Apple in the most seasonal (and tastiest) medium of all. | Elaine Velie